The Italian philosopher Maurizio Ferraris considers the mobile phone to be the center of our social existence. Because it is he who allows «to contact each other through all forms of oral and written communication, to receive records of all parameters (texts, pictures, music) … download this or that book and read it on the train.»
The Italian philosopher Maurizio Ferraris considers the mobile phone to be the center of our social existence. Because it is he who allows you to “contact each other through all forms of oral and written communication, take notes of all parameters (texts, pictures, music), check your own account statement, pay for a ticket to the metro or to an institution … download this or that book and read it on the train. Ferraris surrounds his thesis that the mobile is the most perfect symbol of social ontology with amusing observations about the changes brought to our lives by cellular communications. Ferraris notes, for example, that the mobile has stimulated the development of writing (we send SMS all the time). Therefore, the philosopher concludes, “proto-mobiles” are letters and inscriptions on clay and wax tablets. It is not difficult (and I really want to!) argue with this, to remind about the role of the Internet, for example. But it seems that Ferraris wrote his provocative and witty book specifically for this.
New Literary Review, 352 p.